And now it's all this
And now it's all this
Dr. Drang
I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong
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I meant to write this last week, shortly after I finished listening to Episode 612 of Upgrade. But things didn’t work out the way I hoped, so now I’m rushing to finish these few...
Krugman, Taylor, and Maclaurin
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In this morning’s blog/newsletter,1...
During my seven-week Spotlight trial, I was reminded of how easy it is to make file and folder launchers in Keyboard Maestro. In case you’ve also forgotten, here’s a short post...
I started using launchers shortly after returning to the Mac (from Linux) in 2005. The first one I used was the great Quicksilver. I’m sure I learned about it from Merlin Mann,...
Yesterday’s post included some behind-the-scenes calculations that I figured were worth talking about. They were all done in Mathematica, and here’s the notebook I used: The...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In its continuing attempt to teach...
A less complicated complication
Back in January, I complained about the Apple Watch’s Timer complication being too complicated. A couple of days ago, Dan Moren told me on Mastodon that my complaint had been...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way slowly...
You may have seen this article by Joe Rossignol in MacRumors yesterday. It’s about a new feature in macOS 26.4 that’s designed to keep us from pasting dangerous commands in...
I’ve been thinking about the new Apple Studio Display lately, mainly in the context of Jason Snell’s review of it on Six Colors and his further discussion with Myke Hurley on...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way through the...
Scientific American and Friday the 13th
Scientific American has a fun little article today about the frequency of Friday the 13ths. It ends with this table, and this true but overstated conclusion: In other words, the...
I read Jason Snell’s review of the MacBook Neo this morning and was struck by this section on its two USB-C ports: So Apple has done the work to put two USB-C ports on the...
After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I thought some of you might be...